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Firefox makes poor decisions. I've been trying to use firefox for years and just gave up this past weekend. As far as I know, there's no way to customize your f

Firefox makes poor decisions. I've been trying to use firefox for years and just gave up this past weekend. As far as I know, there's no way to customize your firefox home view on android so that you have a permanent, customizable set of links, and nothing else. You can have "recent bookmarks" which disappear eventually, presumably once they're no longer "recent". Can you imagine being the one to approve such a bone-headed design? I gave up and downloaded opera instead and it's been perfect. I have my desired links up when I open a new tab, nothing else, and life is good.

BlackLotus89 5y ago
* Go into the settings, customize, home * Disable everything. * Visit an important page * Menu -> add to top sites Voila
- silicon2401 5y ago
  I tried that and it doesn't work. It shows all your "top" sites, with "add to top sites" letting you pin some to the top of the list. I don't want a list of my top sites, I want a list of bookmarks. For some reason FF Android only lets you have recent bookmarks (temporarily) or pinned top sites + other top sites. It's absurd that such a basic feature isn't provided and a great example of the stupid decisions that firefox seems to enjoy making
- ameminator 5y ago
  I mean, this will work, but it seems a far cry from a truly custom home page.
  - BlackLotus89 5y ago
    That wasn't the request? Also what do you want on your "custom home page"? If this is the feedback firefox developer get I think I'm beginning to understand why firefox gets better so slowly and why shit like " color way" exists
throwawayboise 5y ago
I have my browser default homepage set to ~/home.html. I maintain all my common links in that local html file. There was a period of time where FF didn't allow a "file://" URL as the default for a new page or tab, but it works now. I'm not sure if Chrome allows it.

BlackLotus89 5y ago

* Go into the settings, customize, home * Disable everything. * Visit an important page * Menu -> add to top sites Voila

silicon2401 5y ago
I tried that and it doesn't work. It shows all your "top" sites, with "add to top sites" letting you pin some to the top of the list. I don't want a list of my top sites, I want a list of bookmarks. For some reason FF Android only lets you have recent bookmarks (temporarily) or pinned top sites + other top sites. It's absurd that such a basic feature isn't provided and a great example of the stupid decisions that firefox seems to enjoy making
ameminator 5y ago
I mean, this will work, but it seems a far cry from a truly custom home page.
- BlackLotus89 5y ago
  That wasn't the request? Also what do you want on your "custom home page"? If this is the feedback firefox developer get I think I'm beginning to understand why firefox gets better so slowly and why shit like " color way" exists

throwawayboise 5y ago

I have my browser default homepage set to ~/home.html. I maintain all my common links in that local html file. There was a period of time where FF didn't allow a "file://" URL as the default for a new page or tab, but it works now. I'm not sure if Chrome allows it.